• Europe Xmas River Cruise ++
    The original entrance gate that you walk through now too
    The door with the infamous "arbeit macho frei " : work makes you free"Roll call groundsWaking down camp avenue between the 2 lines of BarracksRecreation of what inside the barracks would have looked like, minus the straw for beddingToiletsBl 26. Someone left a memorialLooking back down the main camp avenue from the other end of the campBarb wire gate & ditch leading to the crematorium areaThe original crematorium of the campA new building was built including a gas chamberInside the gas chamber disguised as a showerThe larger crematorium spaceGuard towerInside the admin building where prisoners were registered, now a museum exhibitionView through the admin building to the memorialThe original gate made by prisoners. It was stolen in 2014, a replica is outside nowOne of the punishment cellsThe Bunker; the punishment block1A tribute outside the gate. On arrival there was only the flowers.

    Dachau

    December 23, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 1 °C

    After leaving the river cruise we trained from Nuremberg to Munich. We dropped our bags at the hotel & then took the train to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. The site of the original nazi camp was sobering in terms of the size, how well organised they were to perpetrate the atrocities and the sheer size & # of people who ended up there through it’s long history from 1933-1945. Never forget.Read more